Nevada County picayune., 1887-07-06
THE OLD SOUTH.
The Speech Delivered by General
 D. H. Hill in Baltimore.

of the effects of the war General D. H. Hill sad:
 .I would place first of those the general diffusion of love tor the constitution of the United States.- Time was when the South hating philanthropist denounced 1t as "a covenant with death and a league with help gotton up by the slave power in the interest of slavery. But in 1861 the philanthropist ex- perienced change of heart and ever since has talked of the conStl- tuton as that sacred instument that 'bulwnrk of freedom, that palladium of liberty.' etc. am glad of their conversion, suspl- ciously sudden though it was, and
 l hope they will never fall from grace. As stalwart Presbyterian
 l believe in the preservation of the saints.
 The philanthropists used to tell of the cruelty and brutality of the shareholders to their slaves, and said they had reduced the negroes to the lowest stage of ignorance, barbarism and beastiallty. But in the reconstruction period the phil. anthrOpists underwent radical change of views, and discovered that these negroes, whom they had described as more savage and de- graded than the barbarians on the Congo. were not merely enlighten- ed and civilized enough to be free. men and voters, but also to be Uni. ted States Senators and Congress men, foreign ministers, consuls, and marshalls, governors ofstates, judges, members of state cabinets. etc. 1 am glad that the philan- thropists found out that the old South had trained it's slaves so carefully for these high and respOn- siblc duties. No other masters in the worlds history ever gave such training to their slaves. The thir- teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States are the grandest possible eulogies to the old South. But there was one great error Tn this training. The simple hearted, confding southern masters, al ways careless of their own money, did not teach their slaves to be cautious for thousands of these . credulous creatures put their mOn- ey in bank in Washington estab- lished by the philanthrOpists and lost it all. l love to hear the praises of the wonderful deeds of Mcclellan, Grant, Meade, and : Hancock, for if they were such , great warriors for crushing with their massive columns the thin lines of ragged rebels, what must be said of Lee, the two JOhnstOns, Beauregard, and Jackson, who held millions at bay for four years with their fragments of shadowy ; armies! Pile up huge pedestals and surmount them with bronze horses and riders in bronze. All the Union monuments are eloquent of the prowess of the ragged reb-
 els and their leaders.
 Suppose the tables had been turned and that either of the five
 Southerners named above had been superior to his antagonist in all the appliances and inventions of war, and had been given, more- over. an excess of 2,00O, ,00O of men over them how many statues think ye, my countrymen, would there be of bronz warriors and prancing chargers! The Congressman of the old South have voted liberally for all legitimate pension bills to Union veterans, for they know what tough job it was for the 2,SJ9,132 Union soldiers, with their magnificent outfit. to overcome the 100000 rebels, poorly fed, poorly clothed, and poorly eqnipp- ed. These pensions bills are splendid tributes to the pluck, pa tience, perseverance, and fortitude of the chivalry of the old South.
 "I love to hear the philanthro- pists praise Mir. Lincoln and call him the second Washington. for l remember that he was born in Kentucky, and was first to last, as the Atlantic Monthly truly says, "A Southern man in all his charac. tertics.' love- to hear them say that George II, Thomas was the stoutest fighter in the Union army, for remember that he was